Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.

It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.

The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.

Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.

If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.